John James Davidson

John James Davidson was a Scottish Labour politician.
Davidson was born in Inverness, the son of a tailor, and moved to Glasgow at a young age. He served in the First [World War] as an infantryman in the Royal [Scots Fusiliers], enlisting underage and reaching the rank of corporal.
Following the war, he worked for a Glasgow newspaper as a stereotyper in the printing industry, and became active in left-wing politics. He joined the committee of the Glasgow Labour Party">Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party, and then in 1933 becoming chair of the Glasgow Labour Party. He was then elected as the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill at the 1935 [UK general election]. From 1940 to 1942 he served as the parliamentary private secretary to Joseph Westwood, the under-secretary of state for Scotland. He stood down in 1945, and appears to have left Glasgow.
He died aged 77 in Rochford Hospital, Southend-on-Sea, on 9 January 1976.